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Or 2385

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Or 2385
Title:
Commentary on the Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
221 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2385 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2385

Commentary on the Pentateuch

Contents

A commentary on the Pentateuch in Arabic and Hebrew.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-221v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה

The main commentary breaks off with folio 208.

ff. 1r-32v
Title: Genesis

There are rhymed paragraphs on folio 3v, 20v.

ff. 32v-71r
Title: Exodus
ff. 71r-124r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 124r-154r
Title: Numbers
ff. 154r-208v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 209r-210v
Title: Portions of additional commentaries
ff. 211r-221v
Title: Fragments of the Hafṭarot of Genesis with Targum
Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

Targum is given after each Hebrew verse.

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 221 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 146 mm.
Foliation:

221 folios (+2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Collation not established due to modern conservation and rebinding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 35

Written lines: 24 35

Ruled with a mastara.

Has a number of marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of approximately 16th century.

f. 47 ,

ff. 154r-156v
and also
ff. 209r-210v
due to a modern hand (or hands).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on the Pentateuch. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2385.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881, back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2385 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 241.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL